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Dancing in the dark (1989)
Kay (Karen Colston), Louis (Tom Lycos) and Gordon (Jon Darling) have driven to the outback, to get away from Sweetie (Geneviève Lemon) and visit Kay’s mother Flo (Dorothy Barry). Kay finds her mother is a changed woman. With the local ... [read more]
The hungry mile (1976)
Waterside workers are seen on the wharf while the voice-over describes their comfortable work conditions and job security, A montage of historical footage shows a queue of workers in the 1930s, and waterside workers using horses and drays on the ... [read more]
Death in custody (1993)
Essie’s nephew, Eddie, is one of the 'Stolen Generations’. He has returned to Brewarrina, having been adopted out and raised by a white family in Sydney. He plays the organ, which is fitting music for Essie’s cousin, Priscilla Boney. Priscilla ... [read more]
‘They won’t charge’ (1987)
The 4th and 12th Regiments of the 4th Australian Light Horse Brigade have formed into three lines. Lieutenant-Colonel Bourchier (Tony Bonner) leads them off, from a walk to a canter, maintaining the lines. The Turkish observers radio to their commander ... [read more]
A ‘final solution’ (2008)
Historian Professor Marcia Langton of the Yiman-Bidjara Nation describes the Protection Board as the real enemy of Aboriginal people, particularly in relation to the Half-Caste Act developed by the Protection Board and Brother Fredrich Hagenaeur. Professor Janet McCalman and Dr ... [read more]
Prices and wages (1948)
A woman in the butchers can only afford to buy cheap meat; a young boy doesn’t have enough money for a chocolate; a woman is outraged by the cost of vegetables from the grocer; a man in a café is ... [read more]
The workman’s nightmare (1951)
In this silent short film, seen here in full, a young man (John Straford) falls asleep at work. During a nightmare, his ladder attacks. [read more]
‘Passing the Bach’ (1971)
This is 'Passing the Bach’, the opening track on the Don Burrows Quartet’s seminal jazz album ‘Just the Beginning’ (1971). [read more]
The summer of 77 (2001)
The Summer of 77 can be viewed here in its entirety. Cathy (Mary-Ann Henshaw), age 36, recalls a youthful summer holiday romance involving herself (Brooke Ryan), surfer boy Mick (Tristan Roache-Turner) and her best friend Anna (Kassandra Lee). The older ... [read more]
This is not your land (2002)
Vaughn (Damian Pitt) and Lena (Dannielle Hall) come to a cornfield. Both hungry, they decide to help themselves to the crop. The farmer catches them in the act. A heated exchange between Vaughn and the farmer leads to Lena questioning ... [read more]
What is love? (2005)
All the main characters are introduced in this clip, and all offer their own definition of love. [read more]
Barred Wives (1993)
Through the examples of four couples, the documentary examines why women marry prisoners, and the complexities and difficulties they experience. [read more]
‘Mission of mercy’ (1941)
In a dramatic re-enactment, set on a remote homestead in Australia’s outback, a station worker is suffering an attack of acute appendicitis. A member of the homestead radios for help to a hospital hundreds of kilometres away at the base ... [read more]
Message Stick – Wayne’s World (2005)
An episode that introduces us to award-winning filmmaker and actor Wayne Blair. [read more]
A new science (2008)
This clip is set after Truganini and George Robinson have moved the remaining population of Indigenous Tasmanians to Flinders Island. Professor Lyndall Ryan explains the scientific rationalisation of the high death rate of the Tasmanian Aboriginal People. Rachel Perkins’s narration ... [read more]
‘You’d have to burn the place down’ (2008)
Carla (Claire van der Boom) shows Ray (David Roberts) a sample of the money she’s found and tries to persuade him to help her steal the rest of it. When he baulks at her suggestion, she questions whether he’s serious ... [read more]
This is treason (1988)
Tim Bowden presents viewers’ responses to a video clip of a song called 'Sack the Jack’, which calls for Australia to become a republic. There was both apoplexy and praise for this item when broadcast on prime time ABC ... [read more]
The proposition (2005)
The outlaw Charlie Wilson (Guy Pearce) has been arrested by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone). Stanley offers to pardon Charlie and his brother Mike (Richard Wilson), provided Charlie kills his older brother Arthur (Danny Huston), who remains at large. [read more]
In Barcelona tonight (1997)
The Seven Network nightly current affairs program Today Tonight has broadcast a story from Spain about disgraced businessman Christopher Skase, who fled Australia to live in Majorca. Media Watch accuses reporter David Richardson and producer Chris Adams of flaunting the ... [read more]
‘An Australian car is born’ (1948)
Once the sedan body has been completed, the final assembly takes place. Front and rear axels are fitted. New parts are constantly added as the car moves along the assembly line – the six cylinder motor, the dashboard, the headlights. ... [read more]
